The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-31

| all the measures therein recommended.
THAT this State Grange recommend
all the subordinate Oranges in the State
and all persons interested in agricul-
tural and mechanical pursuits, to draw
up and forward petitions signed by the
members of the Oranges, and others whe
may desire to do so, urging and requir
ing the members of the Legislature from
their respective counties to grant the
appropriations recommended in the
Worthy Masters address: of the 1925
000-S75, 600 to be appropriated for the
use of the college during the year 1880
and $50, 900 for 1881, and the Sl2, 500 to
be appropriated annually for the profes-
sors' salaries"
(Signed by the Committee.)
The following was offered by Brother
Durham as an amendment TO the above
Resolved, That the Committee on
Memorials be instructed to memorialize
the Legislature"
The amendment was adopted, and the
report as amended was adopted.
In his annual address to the State
Grange held at Brookhaven, December,
1880, Worthy Master Darden alluded to
the A. & NJ. College:
In the march of progress the farmer
has been forced out of the beaten tracks,
almost in spite Of himself knowledge
adapted to farming fifty years ago will
not suffice for the present needs of agri-
culture, hence from the necessity of the
case agricultural colleges have been es-
| tablished, aud are rapidly being per-
fected and adapted to give farmers more
accurate and scientific knowledge of
matters pertaining to their calling. We
may truly congratulate ourselves upon
the promising beginning of our A. Il NJ.
| College at Starkville We should con-
slider it our pride, and our duty to
patronize it, to foster it and to advance
its interests in every possible manner
This portion of the Worthy Master S
address was referred to special com
mittee, viz: Brother d. L. Phares, ]. G..
Macarthur and s. B. Gilbert-who, on
the second day of said session, made a
lengthy report, embracing history of
the College since its opening on the 9th
of October, previous.
Later on at same session, Bro. J. NJ.
| Causey, for the Committee on Educa-
ton, made report as follows, which was
adopted
"Your Committee on Education, re-
ferring to the report of the special COM
mittee on the condition and prospects of
| the A. & NJ. College, deem it unneces-
sary to make any report on the subject
referred to that committee. This insti-
| tuition is necessity and supplies great
public want. Its success will prove
! most beneficial in its effects upon the
| future prosperity of this State, in the
moral, social and intellectual elevation
of the masses. Mississippi is peculiarly
an agricultural State, and her people are
strictly an agricultural people, and the
| benefits of agricultural training in her
college and schools will do more to
secure their prosperity than anything
which is in the ability of your commit
tee to suggest; so that when this system
of training has become general, and the
facilities for the acquisition OF agrlcul-
tural information are increased, spirit
of investigation will be created and los
tered to an extent that will in a few
years develop the agricultural resources
of the country, and bring about an era
of prosperity unknown IN the past.
This want of training of the agricul-
tural classes is the great cause OF the
financial depression in our country"
At the session of State Grange held in
Durant, December, 1881, the Committee
on Education, in their report, made the
following reference to the A. q Nj. Col
lege.:
''We point with pride to our cher
ished institution, the Agricultural and
Mechanical College, located at Stark
vile, and report that its capacity is not
sufficient to accommodate all who make
application for admission into it; there
fore be it
"Resolved, That we memorable the
next Legislature to make further appro-
priations to increase the capacity OF our
A. & NJ. College, and call the special at
tention of the Legislature to former
report that we have made to this
body"
Which, on motion, was adopted.
At the session of the State Grange
held at Jackson, December 18th and
18th, 1882, a communication from Gen.
S. d. Lee, President of the A. & Nj. Col
| lege, was read and referred to Commit
tee on Education.
"The Committee on Education pre-
sented the following, which was
adopted:
l
red the communication of General >. ID.
Lee, President of the a. 4 NJ. College,
having had the same under considera-
ton, beg leave to report that from the
statements contained therein, and the
address of Brother Phares, Professor
| in said College, before the members of
this State Grange, your committee take
great pleasure in reporting that the A
& NJ College is in highly tiourishing
con dition, having met with success from
the date of organization to the present
| time.
From the best information received,
your committee are satisfied that this
institution-the creature of the Grange
and the pride of the State-under Its
present able and efficient management
is faithfully discharging its high and
responsible duties, and meets most fully
the just and reasonable expectation OF
| the people of the State.
J. r. GALTNEY, Chm.
The following preamble and resolu
tions were presented to the State Grange
held at Meridian Dec. IL and II, 1888
and adopted:
"WHEREAs, To the efforts of the Patrons
of Husbandry as an organization, and
the State Grange or Mississippi, as g
body, we are indebted in a great meas
ure for the establishment of the A. * u
College; and
"WHEREAs, We feel that said College
is credit to our Order, and its conduei
a monument to the energy and efficiency
of the membership and their friend:
who sympathize with the great agrieut
-, 1f ~
that this body may be definitely in
formed concerning the progress, attain
ments and management of the Institu
ton, be it
| Resolved, That committee of fv,
be appointed to visit the College OF
tomorrow and report the result of thei
observation and investigation to thi
body on the following day"
In accordance with the foregoing, tn,
w. Master appointed Bros. P. K. Whit
new, d. L. Alverson, DIR. w. B. Kina
brew, T. A. Dodson and J. A. Bigge
said committee.
The committee visited the College ans
made the following report, which wa
adopted:
"Your Committee to whom wa
assigned the duty to visit and inspec
the a. & NJ. College, would respectful,
report that we arrived at the Colleg
about 10 a. m, and engaged in the dut,
assigned us till p. m. The work give
us proved one of high pleasure, SO grea
. was the satisfaction derived at ever
step of its prosecution.
"When we consider all the circum
stances attending the founding of thi
Institution. getting it equipped and II
running order, and then view the her
culean work which has been done in $
short a time, we feel like exclaimin
"a city built in oayp 1t does seen
that every plan devised and every blos